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CHAPTER 6 - WOMEN CURED OF EVIL SPIRITS AND INFIRMITIES: THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

Elaine Wainwright
Elaine Wainwright
Affiliation:
University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Summary

As in the other gospels, so also in Luke, Jesus’ healing is of the social body as well as of individual bodies. In Luke, however, such social healing figures much more prominently.

The role of women healers has been inexorably married to shifts in the ecology, the economy, and the politics of the area in which they lived.

The stories of healing women in the Lukan gospel may have originated from similar traditions to those shared by the Markan and Matthean communities but they are shaped quite differently by this gospel community and take on different nuances in the literary context of this particular story of Jesus. As a result, I propose, in this chapter, to focus on what seems to be a unique characteristic of women healing in this gospel, namely their close association with demon possession. After considering the health care system in the Lukan gospel through the lens of Jesus the healer, I will begin the study of women healing with the short summary passage of 8.1-3 that is unique to the Lukan gospel and let this key story intersect with other stories of healing women in the narrative to form the Lukan perspective. The socio-rhetorical approach which has been the methodology for this study will enable the rhetoric of the Lukan text to be examined in dialogue with an analysis of socio-cultural and religio-political codes embedded in the text.

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Women Healing/Healing Women
The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity
 , pp. 160 - 185
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2006

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